Top 500 Erin Morgenstern Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Is he a boy or a man? She is not sure how to tell the difference.”

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402. “They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind... They sit over their drinks, smiling like children and they relish being surrounded by kindred spirits, if only for an evening. When they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone then they had before.”

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403. “If the boy turns the painted knob and opens the impossible door, everything will change. But he does not.”

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404. “What is this?” he asks. Meaning all of it, everything, and trusting she will understand. “I will never have a satisfying answer to that question, Ezra,” she says and the smile that accompanies the sentiment is a sad one. “This is the rabbit hole. Do you want to know the secret to surviving once you’ve gone down the rabbit hole?” Zachary nods and Mirabel leans forward. Her eyes are ringed with gold. “Be a rabbit,” she whispers.”

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405. “You ask a lot of questions.” Tsukiko responds. “You don’t answer very many of them.”

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406. “This is where we leave them, in a long-awaited kiss upon the Starless Sea, tangled in salvation and desire and obsolete cartography.”

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407. “Would you hide something in a story for me?” the mouselike man asked the sculptor. “There are those who seek what I must conceal and would turn the universe inside out to find it.”

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408. “We like to hit all of the senses,” Lainie says. “Some more than others,” Tara adds. “True,” her sister agrees. “Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.”

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409. “They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.”

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410. “We are the stars,” he answers, as though it is the most obvious of facts afloat in a sea of metaphors and misdirections. “We are all stardust and stories.”

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411. “For no mortal can love the moon. Not for long.”

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412. “Maybe the Starless Sea isn’t just a children’s bedtime story.”

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413. “And there are always those who would watch Alexandria burn. There always have been. There always will be. So there are always guardians.”

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414. “By the time he reaches the farm, he is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been the day before.”

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415. “Skyrim-inspired sweet rolls and classic BioShock cream-filled cakes and maraschino truffle odes to Pac-Man cherries.”

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416. “Los nombres no son de tanta importancia como las personas han de suponer, una etiqueta asignada para identificarte.”

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417. “He carries the light into places long unfamiliar with illumination that accept it like a half-remembered dream.”

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418. “She wears her fear lightly, like a veil, aware that there are dangers but letting the crackling awareness hover around her. It does not sink in, it buzzes in excitement like a swarm of invisible bees.”

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419. “It arrived only a few days ago and is still a novelty. Had it been present for longer, Caroline likely would have chosen a different dare, but the circus is currently the talk of the town, and Caroline likes to keep her dares en vogue.”

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420. “You are words on paper,” Simon whispers, to himself or to Zachary or to the words above them clinging to their respective papers. “Be careful what stories you tell yourself.”

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421. “He attempts various combinations and finds a bee and a key on the coat of arms of a fictional magic school.”

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422. “Tal vez simplemente hacemos cosas similares de maneras diferentes.”

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423. “Hours or days or weeks. Some will leave and return, keeping the place as an escape, a retreat, a sanctuary. Living lives both above and below.”

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424. “Everyone is a part of a story, what they want is to be part of something worth recording. It’s that fear of mortality, ‘I Was Here and I Mattered’ mind-set.”

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425. “Keepers must have spirit and keep it aloft. They are made keepers because they understand why we are here. Why it matters. Because they understand the stories.”

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426. “One is proud, one collects one’s receipts, and even if one is a bit melancholy, one moves on.”

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427. “Change is what a story is, after all.”

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428. “Passing off manipulations as tricks and illusion. Charging admission.”

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429. “She talked a lot about eggs and keeping them from breaking.” “If an egg breaks it becomes more than it was,” Mirabel says, after considering the matter. “And what is an egg, if not something waiting to be broken?”

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430. “They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, and I am simply a bird in their midst. The audience cannot tell the difference beyond knowing that I am better at it.”

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431. “I’m not sure I want to be in a relationship right now anyway. Things change.”

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432. “In this significant moment, if the boy turns the painted knob and opens the impossible door, everything will change. But he does not. Instead, he puts his hands in his pockets. Part of him decides he is being childish and that he is too old to expect real life to be like books. Another part of him decides that if he does not try he cannot be disappointed and he can go on believing that the door could open even if it is just pretend.”

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433. “Los mejores placeres son siempre los inesperados.”

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434. “Disoriented and woozy, his mind a second behind his body, like pulling himself through crystal-clear mud. As though he’s still drunk but doing it wrong.”

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435. “The ancient stories that flames whisper to moths.”

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436. “To be a guardian is to be trusted. To be trusted, all must be tested.”

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437. “It will take a great deal more than that charming smile of yours to seduce me.”

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438. “A few include disturbingly worded marriage proposals.”

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439. “I’ve spent a great deal of my life doing what other people wanted for me and not what I wanted myself and I’m trying to change. Impulse decisions. No shoes. It’s refreshing in a terrifying sort of way.”

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440. “Maybe everything is burning, has burned, will burn.”

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441. “Zachary puts the candy on his tongue. He was right, peppermint. No, steel. Cold steel. The story unfolds in his head more than in his ears and there are words but there aren’t, pictures and sensations and tastes that change and progress from the initial mint and metal through blood and sugar and summer air. Then it’s gone.”

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442. “He tells himself that it is not a bad life. That there is nothing wrong with being a farmer. But still, the discontent remains. Even the ground beneath his feet feels unsatisfying to his boots.”

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443. “These doors will sing. Silent siren songs for those who seek what lies behind them.”

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444. “The Queen of the Bees has been waiting for you Tales hidden within to be told Bring her a key that has never been forged And another made only of gold.”

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445. “A man this far into a story has his path to follow. There were many paths, once, in a time that is past, lost many miles and pages ago. Now there is only one path.”

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446. “If all endings are beginnings, are all beginnings also endings?”

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447. “Stop, please,” she says. A warning and a wish.”

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448. “You have no friends. And all of this is a fabrication. Your brain’s feeble attempt to preserve itself. Telling itself a story with love and adventure and mystery. All of those things you wanted in your life that you were too busy playing your games and reading your books to go out and find. Your wasted life is ending, that is why you are here.”

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449. “But anyway, this hidden kingdom was kept alive in that magical fairy-tale way and in the same way that it would sing to people who needed to find it for sanctuary purposes it started whispering for someone to come and destroy it.”

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450. “Once there they wander through the stone halls, finding things to look at and things to touch and things to read. They find stories tucked in hidden corners and laid out on tables, as though they had been there always, waiting for their reader to arrive.”

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